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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






2. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






3. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






4. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






5. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






6. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






7. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






8. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






9. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






10. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






11. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






12. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






13. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






14. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






15. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






16. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






17. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






18. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






19. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






20. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






21. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






22. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






23. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






24. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






25. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






26. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






27. Feeling through fingertips






28. Multisensory Structured Language Education






29. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






30. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






31. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






32. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






33. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






34. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






35. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






36. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






37. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






38. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






39. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






40. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






41. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






42. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






43. Whole body learning






44. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






45. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






46. Wide Range Achievement Test






47. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






48. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






49. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






50. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.